latest LJ fail
Oct. 30th, 2012 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioYou may have seen that monstrosity of a reading page they're getting ready to unleash on everybody. (If not, click on the link in the blue banner at the top of your reading page.) In a nutshell, they're getting rid of individual-journal styling for the reading page. The new style does not work for me. Profoundly.
But that's not the main thing I wanted to post about. I've had an unused journal at Dreamwidth all along, so between this and the fact that LJ backups have been broken for a year or so (that is, I can no longer back up my journal to my own machine), I decided to import my journal to DW (keeping all the security groups, of course). Before doing so I changed my LJ password to a temporary one, and then changed it back again when the import finished 37 minutes later (wow, fast!).
That's how I found out that my original LJ password no longer meets their password requirements. It's not too simple; it's too complicated. Apparently the system is perfectly capable of storing and applying a password containing assorted punctuation characters, because I've been doing that for a while, but the "change password" form will no longer accept any punctuation. Letters and numbers, folks. How 20th-century.
Really, LJ? Security means that little to you?
But that's not the main thing I wanted to post about. I've had an unused journal at Dreamwidth all along, so between this and the fact that LJ backups have been broken for a year or so (that is, I can no longer back up my journal to my own machine), I decided to import my journal to DW (keeping all the security groups, of course). Before doing so I changed my LJ password to a temporary one, and then changed it back again when the import finished 37 minutes later (wow, fast!).
That's how I found out that my original LJ password no longer meets their password requirements. It's not too simple; it's too complicated. Apparently the system is perfectly capable of storing and applying a password containing assorted punctuation characters, because I've been doing that for a while, but the "change password" form will no longer accept any punctuation. Letters and numbers, folks. How 20th-century.
Really, LJ? Security means that little to you?
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Date: 2012-10-31 03:16 am (UTC)I'm trying to figure out the logistics of having friends on both DW and LJ. If LJ proceeds with the harsh (bright white background!) page with the teeny tiny fonts, I'll probably be forced to bail. I might be able to figure out how to write CSS overrides for all that, but it might just be time to cut the cord. (Part of this is figuring out if some combination of OpenID, RSS, and things I haven't thought of yet can let me read LJ people over there. The biggest barrier has always been that people are here, after all.)
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Date: 2012-10-31 04:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-31 11:51 am (UTC)